- Merge Records must’ve been starting Spring cleaning early. Their digital team uncovered VHS tapes of classic Archers of Loaf music videos and recently began digitizing them for distribution. You can check out the video for “Lowest Part is Free” above or view other mid-90s Loaf material on Merge’s YouTube page.

- In music design news, the inspiration for fellow Merge act Neutral Milk Hotel’s iconic In An Aeroplane Over The Sea was discovered this week in a New Jersey antique shop. Jeff Mangum originally took a turn of the (20th) century postcard and asked the designer to modify the bathing beauty it featured (ended up being covered by either a drumhead or potato, your call). It’s unlikely this specific iteration of the postcard was the exact one Mangum possessed, but not many early-1900s postcards end up as album covers (via Spin).

- Finally, Deadspin.com has been digging up lost relics of sports writing from Bill Simmons’s original Boston Sports Guy website. This week they feature a post from his first trip to the ESPN campus.